Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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Porridge (1979)
8.3/10
Director: Dick Clement
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale
This full-length feature based on the classic British TV series stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two prisoners who want nothing more than... Read more
Porterhouse Blue (1987)
7.7/10
Director: Robert Knights
Starring: David Jason, Ian Richardson, John Sessions, Charles Gray, Barbara Jefford
Based on the best-seller by great British satirist Tom Sharpe, this TV classic stars David Jason and Ian Richardson as two men battling over the futur... Read more
Postcards From The Edge (1990)
6.7/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid
Based on Carrie Fisher's best selling autobiographical novel and revolving around the caustic relationship between a mother and daughter and satirisin... Read more
Potiche ( Trophy Wife ) (2010)
6.4/10
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, Gerard Depardieu, Karin Viard, Judith Godrec...
Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, POTICHE is a witty and charming comedy starring Catherine Deneuve as Suzanne Pujol, a housebound 'trophy hous... Read more
Power Ballad (2026)
6.7/10
Director: John Carney
Starring: Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas, Peter McDonald, Havana Rose Liu
After a chance meeting, wedding band front man Rick (Paul Rudd) drunkenly jams with former boy-band sensation Danny (Nick Jonas). Six months later, Ri... Read more
Predicament (2010)
5.4/10
Director: Jason Stutter
Starring: Heath Franklin, Jemaine Clement, Hayden Frost, Tim Finn
Naive teenager Cedric Williamson, conspires with two misfits to photograph and blackmail adulterous couples. When the scam goes wrong they end up with... Read more
Pret-a-Porter ( Ready-to-Wear ) (1994)
3.9/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Kim Basinger, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stephen Re...
Aka 'Ready-to-Wear'. A sprawling Altman's-eye view of the fashion world, set in Paris. While not the masterpiece the director's fans were waiting for,... Read more
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Marcos Siega
Starring: Selma Blair, Elisabeth Harnois, Jane Krakowski, Ron Livingston, Evan Rachel Wood...
Evan Rachel Wood plays the cold and calculating Kimberley in this dark teen comedy. Masterfully manipulating those around her she embarks on a campa... Read more
Priceless (2006)
7/10
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh
Irene (Audrey Tautou) is an old-fashioned gold-digger, seducing rich older men in return for dresses, trinkets and baubles. When she mistakes shy barm... Read more
Pride (2014)
7.8/10
Director: Matthew Warchus
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, Dominic West
Based on the inspirational true story. Set in the summer of 1984 Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on... Read more